A curator’s tour in English with Mėta Valiušaitytė will take place on Saturday, October 11 at 12pm at the exhibition On Fragile Grounds. Sirje Runge and Light at Kai Art Center.
Bringing together works created across her extensive career, this exhibition presents Runge as a seeker whose artistic practice unfolds as an inquiry into color as light and teaching as a form of creation. A separate room is dedicated to Runge’s student-focused teaching method, which is a crucial part of both her aesthetics and artistic practice. It features a reconstruction of her experimental work, with colored papers as well as selection of reflections from her former students, offering a glimpse into the poetic and meditative atmosphere of Runge’s classes.
Mėta Valiušaitytė (born in Lithuania, lives and works between Paris and Berlin) is a curator and researcher. She holds a PhD in art history and has served as scientific advisor to Peter Weibel at ZKM Karlsruhe, assistant curator at the Musée national Picasso-Paris, and most recently postdoctoral fellow at Académie de France – Villa Médicis in Rome, among other roles. Her work focuses on scale and size, fragility, modern ruins, with a particular interest in the materiality of works and in the medium of drawing. One of her recent exhibitions, Picasso on Wood, is currently on view at the Museo Picasso Málaga; another, André Derain. Thinking Small: Repetition and Reduction, will open in Berlin in early 2026.